Centromeres, specialized regions located at the center of chromosomes, are critical for ensuring proper cell division. During ...

A new structure in human cells has been discovered. The structure is a new type of protein complex that the cell uses to attach to its surroundings and proves to play a key part in cell division.

Over the past decade, a growing amount of research has revealed how liquid-liquid phase separation mediates protein ...

Table 1 below provides an overview of the key features of a prokaryotic cell: Table 1. The structure and function of key prokaryotic cell structures. Prokaryotes have ribosomes but they are smaller ...

This has been known for decades - but the structure of this cellular immunologic memory has previously proven impossible to pin down. Researchers from the University of Basel and University ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a new cell structure, a protein complex that helps cells attach to their surroundings and plays an important role in the cell division process.

However, a detailed, three-dimensional map of the cellular structure of the area was still missing. Using the BigBrain dataset, an integral part of the HBP, the researchers focused on the two ...

Tyler Coale at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his colleagues have now shown that this bacterium has evolved into a new cellular structure, or organelle. It is the first known ...

This has been known for decades -- but the structure of this cellular immunologic memory has previously proven impossible to pin down. Researchers have now identified a microanatomical region in ...